Quotes About Politics

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives, lessening human suffering, advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world.

how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

We've got fourteen women in the Senate. Fourteen women in the Senate? We are 52 percent of the population. Apparently women do suck at math.

Politics is like a grandfather clock. The pendulum swings left, the pendulum swings right and every so often a cuckoo pops out.

She said, The cards care nothing for politics or the war of the Rebellion, nor General Lee nor General Meade. Only the war in the human heart. The forced marches of overweening emotions. The artillery of love. Piercings. Ambushes. The

A country which accepts wars as contests between good and evil is suffering from the delusion that the morality play symbolizes real political conflicts.

La Unión Soviética había resultado ser una tierra de pobreza compartida. El comunismo no funcionaba en Rusia tan bien como se esperaba precisamente porque era Rusia. Hubiera funcionado a lo grande en Estados Unidos, pensó Harold. Aquél era el lugar para el comunismo.

revolutionaries themselves become reactionary by falling into sectarianism in the process of responding to the sectarianism of the Right.

Mais do que ser educando por causa de uma razão qualquer, o educando precisa tornar-se educando assumindo-se como sujeito cognoscente e não como incidência do discurso do educador. Nisto é que reside, em última análise, a grande importância política do ato de ensinar.

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

No soy peronista, pero a veces por dentro, con cara de póquer, uno grita Viva Perón.)

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each other, including an essential lack of interest in the well-being of the turf on which they fought.

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

Visibility politics are compatible with capitalism's relentless appetite for new markets and with the most self-satisfying ideologies of the United States: you are welcome here as long as you are productive. The production and reproduction of visibility are part of the labor of the reproduction of capitalism.

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He's about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There'd be riots in the streets about the people we're killing. And yet because it's Obama, and he's better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

The nightmare of Trump is not that he doesn't care what people think; it's that he desperately cares what people think.

ultimately, the long-term goal is to have a critically informed public vote out of office representatives that are sacrificing children to the corporate bottom line with prepackaged teacher-proof curricula, standardized tests, and accountability schemes.

It had a rear bumper sticker that read Legalize Recreational Plutonium.

I met Murder on the way - He had a mask like Castlereagh